Bernie Brookes, Myer: If we can't beat them we will join them, Mr Brookes warned. We just want a level playing field. We will take jobs offshore and we will ship product out of China through our internet site, it's a bloody shame.
Woolworths and Bunnings could follow Myer's plan to operate a website from China that takes orders from Australian consumers as the sector grows increasingly angry over the leakage of sales to online stores.
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I knew this would be their (large Retailers) next move. The fed govt will have a look it, and completely stuff it up in their usual fashion.
Perhaps I should take bets on how badly they can stuff it up.
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The Govt has already stated it has no intention of changing and and sees no need to change the current $1K limit.
It's about time these big players realized the world isn't going to move just for them to rip off the community.
Can't believe it took them this long to catch on to o/seas marketing. After all, if they can avoid tax these big companys will do whatever it takes in any other situation.
I can see Myers selling some stuff that way but Woolies and Bunnings? I suspect that the milk may be off by the time it arrives from HK, and shipping a few metres of 4x2 would surely out weigh the cost of GST.
Buying small high value items from overseas makes sense, but with anything if any size, the shipping quickly becomes prohibitive, eg I searched on the web for a 24" monitor, up popped one from Amazon at a reasonable but not spectacular price, but the shipping as more than the item concerned and more than I could buy the item here in Oz.
While I doubt that it is practical, and might not be legal, and still wouldn't get around the other problems of massive rents, wages, government and council charges associated with having a fixed premises here:
They could set it up so you could order in-store, or via the company's website and get the goods sent direct to the consumer from OS - or shipped to the nearest store of your choice. I'm sure that consumer would put up with the wait, to get the better price, as they already seem happy to do so via Ebay etc.
(Note that to make this viable, the retailer might have to set up their own "shipping service" to move this volume of individual packages in bulk into the country economically as to send a single shipment, compared to the same shipment broken up to different addresses and people, it would likely be expensive to post every individual order via post, Fedex TNT etc unless they got a massive discount for volume.)
I still have my doubts as to whether it would be worthwhile though with the pathological greed that seems to exist in much of the retail industry in this country
If this sort of thing ever happened, it would be another nail in the coffin of local manufacturers / suppliers as being in the country, they cannot avoid Australian GST on items they sell, unless they are under $70,000 PA turnover, at which point it would be a backyard operation, probably of speciality or custom items, that wouldn't be sold through chain stores to start with.
Woolworths Grocery are on line at around a 30% increase in prices, which I fail to see justifiable (except for internal corruption. Google "woolworths coffee tea")
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Buy it now on us ebay has recently shown 80 usd + 25 usd shipping. Maybe 10 usd off if you win a bid.
Ebay australia shows 124 aud incl shipping. The cheapest I've seen in Aus is 95 aud + unspecified shipping.
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-- george , 27 Oct 2010 15:55:37 -0700
Buy it now on us ebay has recently shown 80 usd + 25 usd shipping. [I see today there is one guy 79.99 usd and wants to 3-day ship for 45 usd; but you could probably beat him down to a standard UPS 2 lb box at 25 usd]. Maybe 10 usd off if you win a bid.
Ebay australia shows 124 aud incl shipping. The cheapest I've seen in Aus is 95 aud + unspecified shipping.
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Ever seen film of the Polar bear bashing through the ice to get seal
cubs? Less ice more food for the Polar Bear
-- george , 27 Oct 2010 15:55:37 -0700
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